| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-373) and index. |
| Contents |
North and South divide -- Will there be a war? -- Improvised armies -- Running the war -- The military geography of the Civil War -- The life of the soldier -- Plans -- McClellan takes command -- The war in middle America -- Lee's war in the East, Grant's war in the West -- Chancellorsville & Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Cutting the Chattanooga-Atlantic link -- The overland campaign & the fall of Richmond -- Breaking into the South -- The battle off Cherbourg & the Civil War at sea -- Black soldiers -- The home fronts -- Walt Whitman and wounds -- Civil War generalship -- Civil War battle -- Could the South have survived? -- The end of the war. |
| Summary |
While offering original and perceptive insights into psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics, Keegan reveals the war's hidden shape -- a consequence of leadership, the evolution of strategic logic, and, above all, geography, the Rosetta Stone of his legendary decipherments of all great battles. The American topography, Keegan argues, presented a battle space of complexity and challenges virtually unmatched before or since. Out of a succession of mythic but chaotic engagements, he weaves an irresistible narrative illuminated with comparisons to the Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and other conflicts. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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Military geography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Strategic aspects.
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United States geography.
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| ISBN |
9780307263438: $35.00 |
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0307263436: $35.00 |
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